Description

Optics Comm. 311 (2013) 389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2013.08.041

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2013.08.041

Brief

The steady state behavior of optical bistable system in a ring cavity with transverse field variations and inhomogeneousely broadened two-level atoms is investigated outside the rotating wave approximation (RWA). Analytical and numerical investigation is presented for different cases of transverse field variations with Lorentzian or Gaussian line widths. When both (transverse and inhomogeneous) features taken into account, the first harmonic output field component outside the RWA exhibits a one-way switching down processes (butterfly OB) or reversed (clockwise) OB behavior, depending on the atomic linewidth shape

KeyWords

Optical bistability Rotating wave approximation Inhomogeneous broadening Transverse field